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 Entoloma cavipes
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Entoloma cavipes Hk. (holotype):
a. carpophores b. spores. c. cheilocystidia. d. cuticle. | 
Caption: Dried type specimen
Owner: Herb PDD |
Article: Horak, E. (1973). Fungi Agaricini Novazelandiae I-V. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 43: 200 p.
Description: Pileus
10-25 mm diam., convex to pulvinate, centre plane at first becoming depressed
to subumbilicate, brown, drying beige, glabrous (in the centre sometimes with
indistinct radially arranged wrinkles), dry, neither striate nor hygrophanous,
cuticle cartilaginous. Lamellae (L 12-16, I 1-7), broadly adnate or subdecurrent,
whitish when young turning pink, gill edge concolorous and not fimbriate. Stipe
15-20 x 2-5 mm, cylindrical, robust, grey to beige, with white weft from the
mycelium at the base, dry, glabrous, often twisted, hollow, solitary. Context
brownish, cartilaginous. Odor and taste acidulous.
Spores
8-9 x 5.5-6.5 µm, 5-6-angled. Basidia 35-40 x 8 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia
35-55 x 8-13 µm, fusiform or lageniform, hyaline, membrane thin-walled. Pleuro-
and caulocystidia lacking. Cuticle a cutis of repent or suberect, cylindrical
hyphae (5-10 µm diam.), with plasmatic, brown pigment, membrane not gelatinized.
Clamp connections absent.
Habitat: On
soil in forests (under Dacrydium cupressinum spp., Weinmannia racemosa).
New Zealand
Notes: This
species is characterized by its robust, hollow stipe and the fusiform, hyaline
cheilocystidia. Because of the dull brown colours and the habit E. cavipes
could be taken to be a species of Tephrocybe Donk.
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